Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (PH)

The herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH) is the oldest institutional herbarium in the United States. It is a national resource for material from 1750-1850. The diatom herbarium (ANSP) is managed separately.

Curator: Tatyana Livshultz, tl534@drexel.edu
Collection Manager: Chelsea Smith, ans_ph_herbarium@drexel.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 019a3280-a69f-4312-bb30-8556e270f1a5
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 606,145 specimen records
  • 284,605 (47%) georeferenced
  • 596,053 (98%) with images (601,291 total images)
  • 561,047 (93%) identified to species
  • 445 families
  • 5,663 genera
  • 33,794 species
  • 36,671 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Callistopteris (8)
  • Crepidomanes (25)
  • Crepidophyllum (6)
  • Didymoglossum (32)
  • Feea (6)
  • Gonocormus (10)
  • Hymenophyllum (350)
  • Lecanolepis (21)
  • Macroglena (16)
  • Mecodium (113)
  • Meringium (29)
  • Microgonium (2)
  • Microtrichomanes (9)
  • Nesopteris (4)
  • Polyphlebium (9)
  • Reediella (14)
  • Selenodesmium (41)
  • Sphaerocionium (43)
  • Trichomanes (338)
  • Vandenboschia (166)